AFRICA WATER JUSTICE NETWORK (AWJN) FEMINIST POLITICAL SCHOOL

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Accra, Ghana:17–19 February 2026 The AWCC coconvened with the Africa Water Justice Network (AWJN) and Women Collective Kenya a Feminist Political School in Accra Ghana from 17-19 Feb 2026. The intensive school brought together water justice activists, and grassroots leaders from Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Senegal, Gambia, and Nigeria. Rooted in African feminist traditions, collective …

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Nyanga community launches water action committee to tackle water issues

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Scores of Nyanga residents converged at Nyanga Arts Development Centre in the area on Friday 14 November during the launch of Nyanga Water Action Committee (NWAC) in an effort to deal with the issues pertaining to water.  The objective is to preserve and educate people about the importance of water in life.NWAC chair Dumisani Makhanya described the …

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PODILRIG 1.25 – WATER HAS NO GENDER, BUT IT HAS AN AGENDA

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🎙️ PODILRIG – Newest podcast and addition to ILRIG’s grassroots popular education media. This platform serves social justice issues with a strong feminist focus, amplifying voices from the ground. In it’s first episode, they look at water struggles from Johannesburg and Cape Town to Palestine a feature the AWCC. They expose how neoliberal state policies …

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Stop the Faure Water Sell-Off: Cape Town’s Future Shouldn’t Be for Sale

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An abridged version of this letter was published by GroundUp, 16 April 2025. A group of water justice researchers warn against the expensive disasters ahead if citizens agree to the City of Cape Town’s proposal to “externalise” the implementation and operation of the Faure New Water Scheme. The City of Cape Town (CoCT) wants to outsource …

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No To Water Privatization!

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The City of Cape Town wants to outsource a very expensive very risky new water project to turn sewerage water into drinking water, called the Faure New Water Scheme. Under Section 78 of the Municipal Systems Act, they are obliged to get buy in via “consultation platforms.” Their main question to the public is: what …

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‘The Water We Need’: Household Water Mapping as Ecofeminist Education and Research for the Water Commons

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By Anna James, Faeza Meyer and Ebrahiem Fourie. Basic services are a critical nexus point for the realisation of sustainable cities. In South Africa, the failure to realise adequate and equitable basic services cements apartheid and colonial power relations, reproducing violent inequalities and relations of unsustainability. Water inequality has a disproportionate impact on women, who …

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